Tribeca Film Festival

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News about Tribeca Film Festival, including commentary and archival articles published in The New York Times.

Chronology of Coverage

Apr. 17, 2015

Tribeca Film Festival's Storyscapes division, which presents experimental narrative and storytelling, features five interactive projects that raise questions about storytelling, a work of art's intended audience and the nature of vision. MORE

Apr. 15, 2015

Mike Hale Critic's Notebook; Tribeca Film Festival for 2015 offers overwhelming number of documentaries that are story-based and straightforward. MORE

Apr. 15, 2015

Stephen Holden Critic's Notebook; Tribeca Film Festival has grown this year to more than 100 features, many of which have dark and pessimistic overtones. MORE

Mar. 5, 2015

May. 4, 2014

Ginia Bellafante Big City column questions why blatant economic and social inequalities persist in avowedly liberal city like New York; notes that Grace McLeod film Under The Table and Jasmine Velez documentary, both of which played at Tribeca Film Festival, confront question of liberal hypocrisy. MORE

Apr. 27, 2014

Actor and filmmaker Jon Favreau prepares meal with skills left over from his new movie, Chef; small, personal film, which tells story of hotshot Los Angeles chef undone by bad review and diminished gusto, is passion project for Favreau, who wrote, directed and starred in it; movie is being shown at Tribeca Film Festival before opening commercially. MORE

Apr. 25, 2014

New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio makes his social debut on city's glitterati circuit at the Vanity Fair party for the Tribeca Film Festival. MORE

Apr. 25, 2014

Alex Witchel Chat & Chow column describes visit to Nathan's Famous hot dog stand in Coney Island to discuss history of business and its founder Nathan Handwerker with his grandson Lloyd Handwerker; Lloyd's documentary Famous Nathan is screening at Tribeca Film Festival. MORE

Apr. 24, 2014

Tribeca Film Festival honors artists at its annual star-studded dinner, held this year at SoHo brasserie Balthazar. MORE

Apr. 22, 2014

Games for Change Festival, in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival for first time, seeks to use video games to bring about social change; partnership represents more formal integration of games and films, with Games for Change becoming official part of festival’s Innovation Week. MORE

Apr. 20, 2014

The screenwriter makes his new film, “In Your Eyes,” directed by Brin Hill, available on video on demand. MORE

Apr. 20, 2014

Night Out With column recounts evening with Clara Mamet, 19-year-old daughter of playwright David Mamet who is debuting her film Two-Bit Waltz at the Tribeca Film Festival. MORE

Apr. 18, 2014

Mike Hale looks at Midnight program of this year's Tribeca Film Festival, which features science-fiction and horror titles; notes that its programmers stuck with Tribeca tradition, choosing movies that combine low-budget sensibility with high-mindedness. MORE

Apr. 16, 2014

Mar. 24, 2014

Tribeca Enterprises, Manhattan-based independent film concern that runs Tribeca Film Festival, agrees to sell 50 percent stake to Madison Square Garden Company in deal that values Tribeca at $45 million; agreement brings together two of New York's highest-profile show business brands. MORE

Mar. 19, 2014

Advertising column; AT&T, presenting sponsor of Tribeca Film Festival for the first time, is introducing an effort called Film for All that aims to expose festival to more New Yorkers; will pay for thousands of people to see film on one of last days of festival, along with showing film at parks this summer. MORE

Apr. 27, 2013

“The Rocket” and “Bridegroom” won the Tribeca Film Festival’s audience awards. MORE

Apr. 26, 2013

Kim Mordaunt’s feature “The Rocket” won two top prizes at the Tribeca Film Festival: the Founders Award for best narrative feature, and a best actor prize for its young lead, Sitthiphon Disamoe. MORE

Apr. 25, 2013

The inaugural Nora Ephron Prize, a $25,000 award for a female filmmaker in the Tribeca festival, is given to Meera Menon, the director of “Farah Goes Bang.” MORE

Apr. 22, 2013

Protestors say they were thrown out of a premiere screening for “Gasland Part II” after asking difficult and unwanted questions about the film. The festival’s organizers say the screening was full. MORE

Apr. 19, 2013

Andrew Adam Newman Advertising column; Procter & Gamble will unveil documentary Imagine a Future in partnership with Tribeca Film Festival; film, which aims to empower African-American women, is part of company's My Black Is Beautiful initiative. MORE

Apr. 18, 2013

Neil Genzlinger notes that Midnight Section series at Tribeca Film Festival features a collection of horror films that have their own hidden agendas. MORE

Apr. 18, 2013

Towering figures of New York society mingle at Tribeca Film Festival's opening reception held at New York State Supreme Court. MORE

Apr. 17, 2013

The actress and comedian recalls her audition process and working with Jerry Lewis on Martin Scorsese’s dark satire about a dangerously frustrated standup. MORE

Apr. 16, 2013

The festival will award its Nora Ephron Prize annually to “a woman writer or director with a distinctive voice who embodies the spirit and vision of the legendary filmmaker and writer.” MORE

Apr. 14, 2013

Tribeca Film Festival is but one of many such events featuring works in transmedia storytelling, an interdisciplinary genre that combines new technology, narrative techniques and audience participation. MORE

Apr. 12, 2013

Stephen Holden describes highlights from this year's Tribeca Film Festival, which includes the premieres of 53 features; notes that festival, now in its 12th year, has become more artistically discriminating and has snugly woven itself into fabric of New York's cultural schedule. MORE

Apr. 10, 2013

The organizers of the Tribeca Film Festival announced the jurors who would choose the winners in its seven competitive categories, calling them, with some understatement, “a diverse group of 41 industry leaders.” MORE

Mar. 28, 2013

“The King of Comedy,” a 1983 comedy-thriller directed by Martin Scorsese and written by Paul D. Zimmerman, stars Jerry Lewis as the abrasive talk-show host Jerry Langford and Robert De Niro as his dangerously fixated fan Rupert Pupkin. MORE

Mar. 21, 2013

Darren Aronofsky and Clint Eastwood will take part in a public discussion as part of the Tribeca Film Festival lineup of panel discussions. MORE

Mar. 6, 2013

The newly announced features include movies from Richard Linklater, Neil Jordan, David Gordon Green, Mira Nair, Neil LaBute and Clark Gregg; documentaries about Elaine Stritch, Richard Pryor and Gore Vidal; and a nonfiction feature about Moms Mabley directed by Whoopi Goldberg. MORE

Mar. 5, 2013

New features from Rachel Boynton (“Our Brand Is Crisis”), Laurie Collyer (“Sherrybaby”) and Linda Bloodworth-Thomason (TV’s “Designing Women”) are among the 46 works announced on Tuesday for the 2013 Tribeca Film Festival. MORE

Feb. 28, 2013

“Mistaken For Strangers,” a documentary about the Brooklyn (by way of Cincinnati) rock group the National, will open the Tribeca Film Festival in April. It is directed by Tom Berninger, the younger brother of the band’s frontman, Matt Berninger. MORE

Jun. 14, 2012

Daryl Wein and Zoe Lister-Jones, filmmaker couple whose latest project Lola Versus premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival, are working to turn a propensity for exploiting their private lives into a fledgling entertainment empire. MORE

Apr. 30, 2012

Apr. 27, 2012

Neil Genzlinger Critic's Notebook compares five sports documentaries at the Tribeca Film Festival that shed light on stories of victories and defeats; films constitute the Tribeca/ESPN Sports Film Festival portion of the larger festival. MORE

Apr. 23, 2012

Neil Genzlinger comments that movies with twisted premises and perverse metaphors predominate at the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival. MORE

Apr. 16, 2012

Stephen Holden observes that the emphasis of the 2012 Tribeca Film Festival, which will screen 90 feature films, is on serious programming, diversity and quality work. MORE

Apr. 22, 2011

Mike Hale discusses selection of movies to be shown in the Cinemania series, a catch-all collection of horror, sex farces and crime films, at the Tribeca Film Festival. MORE

Apr. 20, 2011

Mike Hale discusses the documentaries featured in the Tribeca ESPN Sports Film series at the Tribeca Film Festival, which explore sports figures who have been transformed by competition. MORE